Gargoyle is an Interactive Fiction (text adventure) player that
supports all the major interactive fiction formats.

Most interactive fiction is distributed as portable game files. These
portable game files come in many formats. In the past, you used to
have to download a separate player (interpreter) for each format of
IF you wanted to play. Instead, Gargoyle provides unified player.

Gargoyle is based on the standard interpreters for the formats it
supports: .taf (Adrift games, played with Scare), .dat (AdvSys),
*.agx/.d$$ (AGiliTy), .a3c (Alan3), .asl/.cas (Quest games, played
with Geas), .jacl/.j2 (JACL), .l9/.sna (Level 9), .mag (Magnetic),
*.saga (Scott Adams Grand Adventures), .gam/.t3 (TADS),
*.z1/.z2/.z3/.z4/.z5/.z6/.z7/.z8 (Inform Z-Machine games, played with
Frotz, Nitfol or Bocfel), .ulx/.blb/.blorb/.glb/.gblorb (Inform or
Superglús games compiled to the Glulxe VM in Blorb archives, played
with Git or Glulxe), .zlb, .zblorb (Inform Z-Machine games in Blorb
archives, played with Frotz).

(note: do not confuse the Git Glux interpreter with the Git DVCS or
the GNU Interactive Tools)

Gargoyle also features graphics, sounds and Unicode support.

Technically all the bundled interpreters support the Glk API to
manage I/O (keyboard, graphics, sounds, file) in IF games. Gargoyle
provides a Glk implementation called garglk that displays texts and
images in a graphical Gtk window, with care on typography.

Limitations:

* This free version of gargoyle does not include the non-free Alan2
and Hugo interpreter (and use a different, free monospace font).

* While Gargoyle can display in-game pictures, it does not provide a
way to display the cover art present in some Blorb archives.

* The TADS interpreter doesn't support HTML TADS; you can play
the games, but will miss the hyperlinks.

/usr/share/doc/gargoyle-free/README.Debian

gargoyle-free for Debian
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This version of gargoyle does not include the non-free Alan 2 and Hugo
interpreters, and use a different, free monospace font. See the
'copyright' file for more information.
Most of the Interactive Fiction games are non-free as of 2009 - in
particular few of them come with their source code. However more and
more games are free-as-in-freedom, some o
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GARGOYLE-FREE(6) GARGOYLE-FREE(6)
NAME
gargoyle-free - interactive fiction player
SYNOPSIS
gargoyle-free gamefile
DESCRIPTION
Gargoyle is an interpreter for Interactive Fiction (text
adventure) games. For more information, see the package
description (apt-cache show gargoyle-free) and
/usr/s
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gargoyle-free (2011.1-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix FTBFS: sdl-sound1.2-1.0.3-6 stripped its depencies, and the
gargoyle build system made unnecessary references to -lsmpeg and
-lvorbis that are normally used when building with the bundled copy of
sdl-sound. (Closes: #674336)
* Fix FTBFS: -lrt was missing. This has never been a problem so I
suspect we previously got it indire
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- Contact Alan 2 author so the interpreter may be released under a
free, like Alan 3 (contact made
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